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Bounty campaign is a good way for projects to spread the word and gain publicity in the cryptocurrency market. But it is not the best way to gain investors. Good projects don't depend on bounties alone to promote their token sale.
And this is because when bounty hunters post about a project, majority of these posts is only seen by other bounty hunters and not to the real investors. And these posts are just basic and can not convince good investors to invest.
Bringing in the investors and funds depends on the team's marketing ability and their ability to close deals. This is why good projects attend a lot of crypto events and network with people.
Though bounties help a project to create popularity and hype among crypto users, the main investment and funds is brought in by the team's marketing and closing ability.

Your words are true to certain extents.
Bounty campaigns thus help to spread information about projects on this forum (most importantly) and likewise social media campaigns

If no projects get investors from this forum, social media or even in YouTube, then perhaps their product is not one that needs investors

That's true and more event and network means more chance to create a partnership that will also help the project to attract more people from another community too. That's why when the bounty campaign must be combined with another kind of marketing. As far as i know, if that will increase the chance to attract a lot of people from the various platform.

I hope you also know that bounty hunters in one way or the other, become investors. Yes, they may not invest during fundraising, whereas some do. They also invest after listing exchange. Meanwhile, some of those that know how to trade, go ahead to trade and within a short period of time, they make their profits.
Yes, other measures are needed and are very important.

True. Only bounty programs aren't enough to get investors attraction. To be honest, most of the bounty hunters do their job for the "money". They don't do it for the project. So it badly impacts the reputation of the project.
Look at all those spams on different forums, twitters and groups. Do you really think these spams actually attract investors attention? Nope. They instead ignore those posts at all cost.

So far, I never see a project promoting theirs only from the bounty program. It is very risky and not really influencing. Yeah, I agree with you. The bounty may help spread the news about a new project, spreading the information, and also getting more community members, especially on their social media channels.
There may be a chance for the new projects to gain new investors, but of course, it will depend on what kind of bounty it is.
They may be more attracted to see the bounty participated by some popular members, with exact payment, interested advertisement.

However, I am sure that every project only uses the bounty as one of the media of promotion. They always have other ways to spread their new projects. It can be from airdrop (that is almost similar to the bounty, advertisement in some media, YouTube, and others, conducting the offline meetings in some influencing countries, and more others.

But, aside from how the promotion, the thing that is also important is the readiness of the project itself that ensures the people to invest in the project.

What if the marketing of the team totally relied on bounty? Then suddenly the project has gain all necessary funds needed for development, what will you called that? Good team of hunters? Its just depend also on how the bounty being handled. Some campaign manager are good to set their campaigns and even using alone hunter expertise on promotions they can see to it the quality of good marketing approach. But of course not all have the talents to lay out a good marketing but those who have experience only.

Although it may not determine all the success of a project, it does not cost a fee. Bounty hunters are a great free marketing tool for startup projects.
They issue their own token and send it to the bounty hunters as a reward for them. Projects not only release bounty programs, meetup events, amas are being expanded and are working well.

sometimes the bounty hunter can also become an investor in the project he is working on, but very few people are like this,
however, I agree with you that the team must cooperate with well-known companies and hold a seminar on ongoing projects, because if only with social media investor interest will not arise if it is not accompanied by reality on the ground.

I feel the only worthy bounty that helps project is content creation, other than that everything else is just 0 worth.

Also, BMs should have strict guidelines and only accept worthy content. Many just copy paste from wp and what not.

Thats the thing. The project developers fail to deliver anything within stipulated time and thus the hype drops off pretty soon. If there is nothing being developed there will be nobody buying the tokens because nobody hopes it to go up. Investors look for that only.

Bounty is not the point here. Bounty is supposed to be a rewarding system for the ones who try to promote the project but if there is no demand for the product even a high value bounty is actually useless after an initial run.

Bounty only makes the project popular and creates a large community supporting the project. If you think that bounty will attract investors, it is a wrong thought, there is no investor interested in bounty projects. They are only interested in large projects that are IEO at the top exchanges in this market

Bounty Hunters in other form do their best marketing to promote the token. There are hundreds of bounty programs and if you navigate properly then you will find many genuine programs, also there are some garbage projects as well. Please do not accept any bounties without looking into the project, because there are lot of scammers where they won't pay you even a single penny once their project is done...be careful...

There are many ways to be added if your project want to get the full potential , they should also make a bannerads  from every other cryptowebsite like cmc etherscan this forum and other popular crypto channel or websites . They can even hired a crypto influencer to get more engagement.

That's the way it was a few years ago, many projects hired celebrities to promote their projects. And most of those projects are scams, now the best way for new projects to succeed is to implement IEO at large exchanges. It is best to use some money to implement IEO, it will make the project easier to succeed

I disagree at some point of your statements.

Bounties does help here in this forum.
You will just never know who is the buyer inside or outside here.
Not all users here are just looking for work, others are really buying. Remember that.
Other bounty hunter also fall in love with what they support. Trust me, I use to buy ICO tokens before while supporting them.

Now in social media.
Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Those kind of platforms have buyers also so it ain't a waste. Actually, they might even find a large investor out there.
So you extend all the possibilities for a buyer as much as you could.

It did work for other projects. I wonder why my current signature campaign still running with a huge giveaway per week to dozen of participants. Means it is working as good promotion for their project. Its simply like that, if the bounty campaign is working then there is a good result on the project standing and if not, surely a project will stop or halt the campaign. On the clear side, social media is a powerful marketing strategy, we know people are hook with it. Thats why any promotion seen on these major olatform such as twitter or facebook can make relevance on some readers and some got interested.

you're right we bounty hunters helps them to promote their project by joining what campaign we join in.

Actually I think bounties now days are a waste for both hunters and startup. Social media bounties do not add any value to the project. Content bounty are enough to create hype and buzz. Signature bounties are the best way to market your projects as most investors are present on BTT. 

Hunters on the other hand are not getting paid well and sometimes not getting paid at all.

OP only says that bounty alone is not enough if you really want to make a successful project you should always prepared to use money for other advertisement that can help your project to attract new investors thats not only came here.
Those social media platform that its need to tweet or share can only be seen by other bounty hunters also since more of them are just following each other.

I am happy to read your opinion, indeed a bounty program for a project will not make certainty to succeed and can attract a lot of investors instantly. But there will be a possibility for prize hunters to spread the project to a larger community, and in my opinion it will be quite helpful for a project even though it isn't very big.

if the question is if bounty campaign can help, then it can. However the next question will be if this is   enough? We all know many project now failed to raised even the softcap  so project owner should also work to find other alternative that they think can be a big help to thier project to increase the investors they have and they can target new potential investors.

You are wrong and right at the same time, if project is good enough it should be enough to attract investors with the help of bounty hunters since the awareness for the project is going on social media and if it doesn't work out then the project is a bad project

If you think bounty isn't the best way, so what is the best choice to promote a project? Personally, I think bounty is the best way to promote a project in this group. And you must know that some bounty hunters potentially become the investors as well. They are not only promoting the project, but they also invest their funds in that project. Moreover, people who are in this forum having a higher chance to be investors than random people outside.  

I don't agree with your statement that apart from Content Creation no other bounty is helpful for the project. Signature campaigns do create popularity among the forum users and so does the social media campaign among the crypto users, you can't say they are useless. Just because you created good content for your project doesn't mean that your project will excel without proper marketing. Every bounty has its pros and cons and you'll have to use them accordingly along with proper marketing.

bounty is compose of different marketing activities or so called promotions  . how do you think a good project can become good without gaining investors because they arent doing bounty/promotion  ?

 this is a crypto forum and many people interested on crypto visit on here , not just bounty hunters alone plus bounty hunters sometimes invest too , they put real money for investing aside from working on a bounty   . bounty for me is enough because it was like a total package for a project that is starting   .

We have more serious investors on top exchanges like binance,huobi, gate than using bounties to find investors, that's the painful truth but it's better to use both, new projects should go for top Exchanges to raise find and use bounty hunters help too

I do not agree with your opinion because the gift of gifts is where a project can be promoted well let alone many participants who follow the project then it is the best way to get a real investor, if They can also hold special events to find enthusiasts from investors.

in spreading the word about a new project, of course, that the bounty is not enough for that. however, the team must also have its own marketing strategy. for example, they present their projects at crypto exhibitions, or related matters, and do advertising types such as Adsense, Facebook, and others.

But I haven't seen a project that uses bounty hunters only to raise funds, you should say the name of such projects if you have one, it's always exchanges and bounty hunters right from the beginning, the only problem here is projects that go for low rated exchanges which always lower the success rate of projects

Bounty hunters are also investors especially if they see a good project. Well, bounties are helping the team to spread the news about the project and you can see that on this forum, and most especially on social media. The team of course must be active and as much as possible talk to many businesses. We are all important here, that’s why good projects start with the bounties.

Yes, it looks like a good solution for project developers, but for projects that already have a sale value and already have products that can be used for real, then don't have to use the time to make bounties anymore so they have to use the help of bounty hunters, they just need to get in. to the top exchange to create ads and enter other popular sites to advertise, so that the project will also be more famous and investors will know about it.

You're right but we cant deny that bounty campaign has a big impact on why a project succeed and attract the investors because hunters are spreading awareness for the project to be known by potential investors not just here in the forum but in other social media platforms as well.

Nevertheless more effort on the side of the dev and team are needed if they want to gain investors outside crypto community.

I wonder how temtum and sero project became successful if not because of the exchanges they listed on, bounty hunters have a part here too but what's most important is the quality of the project, if the use case is good enough it will be successful

I see very few bounty hunters investing in the projects they promote, they know that those projects are shit and have no value in the future. So they will not waste money and time on such projects. They promote the project and will quickly dump it after they receive the token

Let's stop talking as if bounty promotion is not effective for new projects, if it's not working there is no reason for developers to seek out for bounty managers, OP doesn't know the worth of bounty hunters job, it's very effective

Most of the time the people where bounty hunters are promoting are already aware of their cryptocurrency since the promotion most of the time is in the forum, twitter, etc. And also they are promoting for a certain project already which means if you are not aware of this ICO or Projects I don't think you are going to be interested in investing since you don't have any experience in their projects.

The work of bounty hunters is always effectively promoting a certain project, in my opinion, they always have success in their work but the problem is just the project itself that they are promoting that might be not trusted by a lot of investors since ICO projects commonly are a scam. Surely this project promotion is not enough to promoted cryptocurrency enough around the globe.

The problem is not bounty hunters, investors are simply not moved by the new projects promises anymore, who is to be blame here? New devs should spend time on how to attract investors and one of the way is better use cases

What is to blame is the scammers who have made sweet promises to investors, because the scammers also build a lot of new projects that result in investors becoming victims of fraud through their projects, so it makes it hard for investors to trust projects that only at this time.

In everything we plan to do or aim for, the foundation is very important, in fact it's what will determine the future of every projects and the right foundation is the TEAM, this is all a project needs to reach a better height, others like partnerships is just a plus, professionalism of the team is the most important in crypto space

Not entirely true. When bounty hunters tweet to rank a trending topic it becomes visible to all which bounty hunters are also investors. When articles are indexed on search engines, its goingot be there on the itnernet forever and helps the website of the project to be able to be seen by searches. But when the camapign is over though, the exposure of the project diminishes.

You're right, other forms of marketing especially using some good influencers be it on YouTube or other blog channels is necessary to reach target audience investors. Bounty is cheaper way of marketing the reason people rely on it.

Surely this bounty was not enough to promote the cryptocurrency community, even today the cryptocurrency is still not yet fully implemented and their are so many people that has no idea about crypto.

And we already have a thousands of bounties that happened already and it was not enough, meaning it was not really the answer for mass adaptation since the bounty have its own goal but the advertisement was surely productive in a way.

Bounty hunters are doing their best to promote the project the best way they can but i think it's still not the best way to attract investors because the biggest factor that will possibly do it is the team itself. The staff behind the project should be more creative and skilled enough because they should be more responsible for the success of the project rather than giving it all to the bounty hunters.

Of course it is, because very few investors come in the project only because of the bounty, so each project should develop its own marketing and of course, it’s best to conduct IEO on top exchanges and then there will be no problems with investors.

Agree with your message but each reality social media promoting not now good ways for any project. I think signature at this time best ways for promoting a project IEO/IEO because many people now follow it. Even other think more bounty hunter already leave their work because lot of decrease strong project in this time.

I think bounty project is a good way to attract any investor. I think the problem is not on bounty project or bounty hunter. The problem is investor already lost attention to cryptocurrency. The hype of cryptocurrency gone and investor seek other oppurtunity.

I dont do social media campaign and I have less than 2000 followers on twitter but I can tell you due to my long time in this space and my frequent tweet on cryptocurrency have gain more friends with crypto interest, more than 70% cryptocurrency friends. However, to retain my trust among followers because past scam ICO/IEOs I dont do social media campaign for any project. If I ever do for trusted projects not as a bounty participant and will prefer exchange listed project with my trust.

Bounty is very effective, that is why until now we are still seeing a lot of projects that are running a bounty program.

Actually a bounty program is just part of the marketing strategy, the biggest marketing technique that would attract investors is if they'll room around the world, join in conference and tell people about their project as that tells the project is legit and the team are serious with the project.

A good investor will never look to the promotion way when he chooses an investment place and he never use his lusty to tempted against the project which offer a lot of profit. But a good investor will loom to the project itself. He will choose if the project is really good for crypto environment.  And the project will take mass adoption for crypto currency world. So I just guessing it is not about bounty campaign but the investor itself because it will give many thing.

Bounty hunters are just part of the campaign to introduce the project while the team is looking for investors for their project development. The promotion will continue after the bounty campaigns which is why teams does have their own marketing executive who does have a team of its own for internet and SEO marketing.

The marketing continues after the IEO or ICO, marketing never stops which is why some projects even when they did a campaign a year ago, they will do another campaign few months later.

You are absolutely right,it's not the best but at least bounty hunter is like bridge to convey message to investors for more curiosity. However in the present lot of project judge bounty hunter as trash in the end of campaign. It looks pathetic because the bounty hunter only considered the dumper but if marketing and team strategy nice could certainly cope with the dumper of the bounty. Bounty hunter is worth getting a salary from their work.

Well indeed investors will choose the best project for long-term investment, they will how will look ahead to the development so that it can be called a project that will run in the future.
I also think that if a large investor will not look at a new project, but an old project that is still going well on his coin exchange, there will be a large investor playing the price on the exchange.

IEO in good and big market is not an easy thing. Perhaps the main factor is how the project itself in developing the project. Good Team also very important. Sometimes people just can create thing but lack in marketing and advertising

True, successful projects are projects with broad marketing strategies, which means they are supported by thousands of people who are promoting. Of course, big projects are still promoting through the bounty program because bitcointalk forums are easy enough to attract investors in all corners of the world.

Agree with you, investors are no longer interested in new projects because in the last 2 years new projects have continuously failed and made many investors lose money. So now, if new projects do not implement IEO, they will surely fail. Bounty will not be able to help investors to participate in new projects.

I agree with some of your insights about bounty campaigns but I think your view about the bounty is limited to hunters doing social media tasks. There are some bounty campaigns that directly target investors, like referral system where participants invite and encourage possible investors to the project. This mechanism would be a great way for a project to encourage investors.

every project certainly needs a promotion to be known by many investors. by promoting it, of course, investors will study a project being promoted. and I think the main goal in that direction. so that investors can explore it, and if it feels good, then they will invest, therefore I think between bounty and project developers should be a symbiosis of mutualism

Right. I agree that if a project wants to get a lot of investors and their tokens are sold according to the target, don't just rely on the bounty campaign. indeed the gift campaign is one of the best ways but in terms of other promoters such as holding a kind of seminar in promoting their token sale and many other ways that can be done so that the predetermined goals can be achieved to the maximum.

Bounty campaign's attracts thousands of people especially in their social media, medium and content creation campaign. It's allowing them to give their reviews about the projects. Bounty will always will be a part of processing how big project will run.  Its process of gathering their supporters like in telegram which is a big help for them to spread the news more accurately.

Bounty is not the main factor why investors will invest, it's just one of the factor, the one big factor that can make investors invest in a project is the project itself, does it has usage for the community, what will it contribute to the community, will the investors' guaranty to get their investment with profit at the right time if these are all absent no marketing can make them invest.

Well the hype from the popularity you speak about also contribute to the amount of funds following into the project as the more people get to know about what you sell, the greater your chances of getting more patronizers. Bounty was initiated to create awareness by concentrating on special areas of the internet to spread the message about the project been advertised either in written form or visual form.

It effect is mostly felt indirectly as not the promoters are usually the Investors instead because they advertise for the project that hires them, the news of the project spreads arouyand creates an opportunity foew more viewers to get aware of the project been promoted.

The main factor should be how strong fundamental that owned by the project but the bounty helps the project to spread awareness to the others from another community to be aware with this project. The use case is also the main consideration to determine it's really worth to invest or not. The combination to create a perfect marketing is really needed and project must use combination from various marketing ways.

It has always been so. Most of the truly good projects have never run a bounty campaign because they did not need it.
They, as a rule, already had their own external investors, who covered the main capitalization. Everything else fell on the classic types of marketing.

Most of the projects dedicate only a very small portion of the total pool for the bounty (usually anywhere from 0.5% to 2%). This is very inadequate, as the bounty campaigns play a very large part in deciding the final outcome of the project. IMO, at least 10% of the total pool should be dedicated for all the promotional activities, including the bounty campaign. The promoters should not become too greedy.

It all depends on the project marketing team, but I see quite a lot of projects that do marketing well and there are no problems with it so far. The project opened a bounty campaign not only to find investors but also to build their community stronger

This is true to say that most project have succeeded majorly after bounty ends because the ground has been created, they now do team marketing and strategy to further push the project outside the walls of this forum. Some just do airdrops and list in high volume exchange as a strategy.

I have seen a huge marketing campaign and projects that created a huge community but end up dying in the end, you can build a big community you can hype a coin but if you have a platform that will not be adopted this kind of project is going to fail and we have a long list to prove that, and big numbers are gone.
 

Referencing your subject, i think it depends on how you view it.

On a marketing side, except a project lists on binance (who offers exclusive marketing skits) i think projects need Bounty hunters for marketing purposes.

It might be in form of an Airdrop or a contest or a full blown Bounty campaign

Bounty alone is definitely not enough, trading, investing in good projects can actually also fetch good money, this is only when you look for the right project, will suggest old projects, doing bounty alone is not advisable, also offline jobs is also good, but if you can't get profitable offline jobs, then you can do Monday re of airdrops as well, if you have capital, go for trading cryptocurrency or invest in reliable projects or even hold some btc and eth long term.

Some ICO uses ads  to attract investors.
But some only post their logo on the screen and didnt show any pros to their projects.
So it is really hard to determine a promising project.
They only have a small chance to have a good price if they  have a lots of vote from a know trading site .

      It is true that projects through bounty campaigns are promoted more for bounty hunts. The project team and its good management are the key elements for promoting the project, but it is not everything. The investor will invest, only if the project is prospective, and the whitepaper is very important.

Really good and quality projects with good planning and funding, often do not hold a bounty campaign. The dev team is very confident in the quality of the project and its products are able to attract investors and form strong market confidence. But that does not mean that projects that hold bounty campaigns are not good, it's one way to disseminate information and form a wider network.

It is something tough, maybe bounty is not really enough, maybe you need a lot more stuff, but bounty is the thing that you need to do to start.

Yes, you need to have a good idea, good roadmap, good white paper, good team, good developers, good ceo, good promoters, good relations with exchanges and many other good stuff, all of them combined makes you a great currency, with one of them missing you are not going to be a top coin, however if you remove bounty hunters than all of them are worthless, bounty hunting is what you pay the bounty hunters to actually get your name heard, get your currency known, if you do not pay them, how are you going to market your project to masses? Are you going to advertise on google and youtube? You need bounty hunters as the number one thing first.

Nobody ever said doing bounty alone is enough to attract potential investors, one of the reasons I think project owners conduct bounty is to build an active community, have good supporters, bounty is just a part of the marketing and it is some how cheaper with many participants than other form of marketing.

Absolutely! Bounty brings a certain amount of investor and rest of all investors comes from partnership and through the team's approach! In 2017, AMLT team said bounty hunters brought 500 investors for our project, we are grateful to them! So 300- 500 investors are a good number for any project!

You are absolutely right! Bounty is to build a strong and large community! All the project's social followers come from bounty campaign, therefore all those retweets, contents help the project to come in the front page of google! Therefore it can bring some investors too!

I think I quite agree with you, the project team needs to have a strong marketing team and also need to create crypto invests that will attract investors but that being said,bounty hunters play very important role in publicising the project,most crypto investors get to see these projects and the hype will attract them to making research. Bounty hunters are also helpful.

Bounties are still good or fit into crowd sourcing but the thing is it is not even really fit to attract many investors way back then it is already an issue but still they are trying their best to attract more investors to the help of gambling which is very hard. But the thing is that it is very hard especially right now that the situation of the bounties are not in a good shape, do you think the investors will come to invest if they will see that the even the bounty are not in good situation?

Right from the beginning it's not always about bounties only, what most team lacks is good marketing strategy, if a project failed today it's the teams fault not bounty hunters, and if new project want to raise find nowadays they have to use exchange but because some exchanges have low listing fee they pay up not knowing that top exchanges are the best

Though bounty hunters didn't hold it all in term of project promotions, however, the impact of hunters cannot be overemphasized.  This is the largest community of crypto.  Promotion on social media and other platforms go a long way in bringing both crypto and non-crypto spheres investors.  Hunters can promote a particular project as well as bring it down.

This is not completly true. The teams know what they gain from the spread bounty hunters give their projects. If there is nothing achieved by hunters I do not think the teams will be asking for the services of bounty hunters to run their adverts across various social media. Even projects which run signature campaigns on this forum have gains they record because a range of investors visit this forum on daily basis to seek projects they can invest in.

Yep Bounty isn’t enough power to promotion for all of new projects. I don’t think too much people's reached the hunters likes,comments,shares and posting regarding which projects in the social platforms. Mostly real investors are attracted from another ways. Hunters followers are mostly fake and inactive users so these promotion aren’t effective. And bounty hunters can't represent properly.                         

Couldn't agree more, bounty campaign may seem irrelevant to some people but believe it or not it plays an very important role in promoting any good project to reach the desired audience,
Especially the social media campaign,  this type of campaign have the capability to reach a huge number of people from different locations and works of life,  it is a very effective tool in promoting a project,
I thinking bounty plays a significant role and should not be under estimated.

This bounty campaign can go a long way to help a project, and yes only bounty campaigns are not enough, but they can really help the project and spread information about it. No matter how good the team that are running the bounty is, if they are not able to promote their business through several means such as bounty campaign and social media campaigns they will be heading no where trust me.

Even projects with a bad team have been able to gain investors through these campaigns. So, a good project does not only need a good team, it also needs that publicity. There’s more to this and that’s a whole article and I do understand where you’re heading to.

If we consider the aspects of crypto currency developers, i would say that running a bounty program is not enough, you need to further create and maintain an enabling community that can grow your products.

Because having a large community members of bounty hunters helps no project to be frank.

You already nailed it! Exactly, projects/services get even more popular with help of bounties especially if it is done in a place with very high population like this forum. And for me, that's a big thing already because you directly hitting your objective as a promoter — introduce your work to as many as you could. Actually, I think there's nothing to lose for them when they make bounties/sig campaigns here in the first place simply because for sure the money they allocate here is just the tip of their total fund ;D. So for me, it is all worth it!

Honestly, if the project had a great marketing team, they wouldn't need to have bounty. And their projects will surely get noticed by their projects in cooperation with major exchanges and investors. Only weak and unqualified projects do bounty to attract investors here, which is why we see very few successful projects in 2019 and this year.

I don't think the bounty is in a bad situation, even it's just my project that can't attract investors to come back again, because now they know that there is always a large amount of waste when entering the stock exchange that makes investors no longer interested.
Therefore, developers should be able to maintain their tokens as much as possible when entering the exchange so I think this is not a good situation in the bounties.

yes, it is true and that's a fact that cannot be denied. that the promotion carried out by the bounty hunter through the bounty campaign will only be within the reach of other bounty hunters or other crypto hunters and not necessarily one of them is a big investor, although this does not exclude the possibility. but the best way to get large investors is, the marketing special team of the project to promote directly to investors, meaning door-to-door. so that way, we can be sure whether the project is feasible to proceed or not. after that, submit everything to the bounty campaign.

Popularity is very important when you running into business and gaining clients but then, it was a big challenge to acquire and surely it was a big job to do.
Having bounty to promote their project is making a way also to gain popularity but with the past bad market reputation against IEO/ICO, it gonna have a different approach. It needs more market strategy and needs more people to work on it.

That is not always how things happen. Some of the bounty hunters consider bounty as an instrument to get a demo of a product and use received  altcoins to test service. If they like it, they can spread the word to masses.

Take for example scam project Miracle Tele. I’ve told some of my colleges (they are far away from crypto) about it (cheap mobile communication with option to earn (their stacking program). You buy once, then use profit from stacking to pay for mobile services usage - aka free mobile internet + sms/talking. Some of them event considered involving into the project. To bad the project scammed :) 

Even companies like Aternity, Tezos, Binance conducted their bounty promotions during at the time of their ICO, not only marketing team they need to have an efficient development team and it will surely help them to get more awareness about the project. Of course, many bounties scammed the investors and bounty people without any further day.

There have been many poor quality projects implementing bounty to promote their projects and attract investors, and as a result those projects are dead and unable to continue. Promoting the project is a necessity, but if the project is not of good quality, it will not exist

Correct. Depending only on bounty hunters doesn't qualify enough investors. It depends much on the marketing capability of the team and their performance. Signature campaign in this forum plays a vital role to draw attention of the investors. If higher ranked members join a signature, investors are  keen to that project.

unfortunately, the assessment of good and bad projects cannot provide certainty. everyone who does the analysis can have a different opinion. until now I think the bounty campaign is still a good solution for promotion to investors even though the percentage of success is also not large.

This is true but many of them always look for the best and affordable way to promote their projects and that is exactly the reason why they always go for bounty hunters. In some cases, the hunters are parts of investors too and I have discovered that bounty hunters disseminate information through the internet very fast and abundantly that the information are crawl by search engines which bring more investors

I believe that most successful projects did not run any bounty programs to be able to get investors, I think they more on physical appearances such as conference, meeting with possible partners and investors to present their project efficiently. While there are some cases that the projects went successful by going through bounty campaign kind of endorsements.

This forum is also read by many investors and analysts. Therefore, the bounty campaign is effective in promoting the token.
Also an important part is advertising in other places.

Bounty hunters also play a role in helping promote a project, and I often see some of their social media that have followers that I see are investors or traders. And indeed to promote the project can not only rely on the bounty campaign, they also have to do other things to be better known by many people such as placing advertisements on the website.

Yes, you are right. Whoever expert in crypto investing they mist follow and read this forum before buying any coins! Therefore all the well-known platform like Coinmarketcap, Etherscan asks Bitcointalk ANN thread as a reference! So, Signature bounty helps to catch an investor's eyes! Therefore social and content bounty increase the community and activity and it spread widely! So, the only bounty is not enough but it promotes a project widely!

In order for the new project to be successful, everything is important here: the organization by the ICO team of marketing, the work of the bounty hunters here on the forum and on social networks, and of course, the novelty of the idea, the necessity and prospects of the project itself. If the project is bad, then how many do not advertise it, investors will not invest in it. Especially at this time, when investors learn from their mistakes for the third year in a row in the absence of a significant and long-term growth in the cryptocurrency market. However, the work of bounty hunters is still very important and many investors come to this forum as guests.

Projects endorsement is big thing because it’s a best way to attract investors than publicity and bounty hunters, definitely it is help to find investors, so i think a successful project behind bounty provided efforts. Yeah, privately endorsement projects are capable to success without conducted bounty campaign. Binance endorsement mostly projects didn’t conducted bounty.                              

After Satoshi nakamoto created bitcoin he certainly thought that if the digital currency lovers community had to be combined in one forum so that bitcointalk was created as the first forum in the world to discuss and introduce digital currency to the world, although now there are many discussion forums on cryptocurrency but bitcointalk is a forum the biggest there is, so, it is not surprising that many investors or traders are active in this forum, and that makes blockchain company developers hold a bounty campaign in this forum, so that they can make their projects more famous and make investors interested in participating in ICO and IEO projects Even though there are many bounty projects that don't benefit or deceive bounty participants, I believe that the blockchain project developers still need bounty participants to promote their projects.

This is such a great piece. This is just what I reminisced about a while ago. Bounty truly is not enough to gain audience, traffic and real investors for a cryptocurrency project. Well this is not to dispute the fact that bounty in one way play a role in project development. But it isn't enough to get a real investor to a project. Reason we see projects hosting events, attending events and meeting people including potential partners and investors. We also see projects hosting AMAs and Ambassador programs. These are a few ways also.

"And this is because when bounty hunters post about a project, majority of these posts is only seen by other bounty hunters and not to the real investors" - That is not entirely true, bounty is not just posting on the forum, it usually includes many social channels, such as FB, Twitter, Youtube, LinedIn, Medium, Steem etc. And such posting see a lot of people and maybe potential investors. But good projects do not need this, or do not need such a large scope. They'll get his money without a bounty anyway

Not at all, for me bounty is just like a part time job that I do when ever am chance that's once in a while because most of the bounty don't turn out to be what they seems so I don't put all my time and effort into it.

You are right bounty campaign good ways for called more investors with giving project information day by day. But this time social media promoting no have value because amount of investors low in this time. So signature campaign giving more help for called smart investors i suggest it every project need choice signature for promoting their project

I agree with your opinion, a project that successfully attracts investors is a project where teams often attend Blockchain events in various countries. When participating in an Event the project team directly introduces the product or project excellence to investors so that it can easily attract investors.

Bounty campaign is indeed not the only way that the dev team can do to develop their niche, this is only one way. The development team should not depend on this either, because the crypto ecosystem will automatically be attracted to a potential project with a unique product that is strong and functional.


In fact, this is so, if it is not supported by unique product quality, customers will not be interested in trying, popularity is not good, then investors will not be interested.

I think end of the day, it depends on the quality of product. Some products are so good and written clearly, investors take a look, and happily place their money there. Most projects have to try harder, to go for social events to promote their products face to face. Another set of skill all over again with PR skills and marketing capability

Bounty can never be enough for a project to be successful or raise fund successfully, the project team are the one responsible for what happens to their project, they have to come up with better plans and good funds, all bounty hunters do is promote projects and how good the project is will determine how attractive it will be to investors

Only bad projects will fail to attract investors after bounty hunters promoted the project, that's why we have social media campaigns and signature campaign too

Yes, too misleading these days for many projects. If the bounty is too much, it's probably too good to be true, if it's too small, not worth the effort anyway. Tough days

The current market is very difficult and investors will not risk investing in new projects. In these days, I believe good projects are hard to attract investors, and it makes bounty much harder than before.

I think you're right, but it's actually more complex than that. Investors have to come in, even before a project is announced. This allows investors to look at responses of the public, and do their due diligence before putting their money in the project. Most projects lack this kind of planning, especially projects that requires fund to kickstart.

I think the projects that went successful through bounty campaigns got the best record in 2017 ICO rush, hahas.  :D

Yes, and the bounty hunters will also feel tired when they have promoted a bad project that is not liked by investors, so that it is not wasted time on a bad project, it is better to do research first, so the hunters will not feel sorry after promoting the project any.

So true, product potential and capability is very important.

During this prize hunters always play an important role in every campaign project, can not be seen only underestimated because the prize hunters are also willing to take the time to continue to promote each product of the project they are working on and live how the team from the project if both working together with maximum and often seen in various events will certainly be more and more investors are glancing.

It's a big factor of how investors will stay close with the project so its really a big point of what will be the future plans of the team behind it. Some bounty hunters are also willing to invest if they know what are the future plans and capability of the projects. So its big percentage how the team/developers will run the project in the future. If developers and investors will work together, the project will attract more clients.

Company are aware of this mate and they are not new in this world thats why for sure they are not relying in bounties at all.
the Post is not the one whos Inviting investors but the signature itself and we are here just to promote the sig though our obligation also to make good post to be able to be more attractive but thats Both the objective.
in this part the legit and scam differentiate because the effort of legit team are indeed because there is concern about the project and not like scammers.

and that is the main Objective of Bounty campaigns to promote the name and to Make investors familiarize about the said project.

Well,the truth is the team seek for investors,here I mean their marketing team,they should have their own procedures of getting investors,but then the bounty hunter also creates awareness which cuts across crypto users and non crypto users,their hype sometimes is just too much not to attract investors,so I think both the team marketing team and the bounty hunters are very important to marketing a project.

If a project has no angel investors and no sponsors, I believe they will fail in the future. A big project will never depend too much on bounty, because bounty only helps their project become more popular. If they wanted to find investors through bounty, their strategy was wrong

Bounty hunters has a main role in the bounty campaigns. They need to advertise the said campaign for it to have an investors. Without the help of bounty hunters, bounty itself wouldn't be successful. Bounty hunter is just a factor of a success. It still depends on the projects or the campaign itself. If the project is good, for sure it will acquire many investors. But if not, it might failed and might cause a scam for the bounty hunters.

Agree with your message but each reality social media promoting not now good ways for any project.
Those social media platform that its need to tweet or share can only be seen by other bounty hunters also since more of them are just following each other.
 Most of the truly good projects have never run a bounty campaign because they did not need it.
They already had their own external investors, who covered the main capitalization.
 trading, investing in good projects can actually also fetch good money, this is only when you look for the right project, will suggest old projects, doing bounty alone is not advisable, also offline jobs is also good, but if you can't get profitable offline jobs, then you can do Monday re of airdrops as well, if you have capital, go for trading cryptocurrency or invest in reliable projects or even hold some btc and eth long term.

The basic purpose of the bounty is to advertise about the project, through various social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.etc. And for emerging projects, there are hardly any good options apart from the bounties. A very few may manage to advertise using mainstream channels. But the vast majority of the projects may not have the financial strength to do something like that.

Investors can come from anywhere. It can come from the Bitcointalk Forum, social media campaigns (Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and Instagram), articles and YouTube videos. This media form has a very important role to attract the attention of investors.

This is actually the best promotional medium to promote a company. So to determine the success is the seriousness of the team and the developer of the company. We hope that bounty hunters can be successful again because we have had a good past as of the year 2017.

Bounty hunters just sperate the words among all people, but all people can't be investor. We see the main effect when any coin listed exchange for long time. Before it any coin get success by high quality marketing or high quality team. Without real product or target gain, any project hasn't good future.

I agree with you, bounty campaign is indeed an efficient promotional tool, but here is a bad side because efficiency is used by some evil developers to try their luck by making a project and then hold a bounty with the aim of being a promotional media only, after they hold a sale after that developer disappears, and now this often happens and in my opinion now projects that have funds in advance and use their funds for promotion are preferred by people because this is more reliable than projects that only hold bounties.

I believe that the most successful ways to attract investors are signature campaigns on the forum and the creation of good content by bloggers. major investors come from these sources and that is why projects pay more money for this direction

It was a good idea during the economic boom to promote the service on well-known crypto forums but the market conditions are not suitable now for this purpose. The paid money will not be as effective as in the old day.

Yes you are right but i think that we should not under estimate the power of a bounty campaign, actually a bounty campaign does introduce the project to the community and masses in a very well directed manner so that everyone knows about the new project but in the end it is the quality and attractiveness of the project that will make people invest, so it is not very simpel and there are a lot of factors that determine how good a bounty campaign performs.

Some services are still popular despite the current crisis. For example bitcoin mixers, crypto gambling websites (people still like to gamble and perhaps even more because many people are staying home now and get bored) so for such services I think marketing using signature campaign can be profitable.

I get your point. Well, it is really true. Launching a bounty campaign is really not enough for the project to gain success but doing such will be a great help for the promotion of the project in a sense that people will be aware in this forum (for the cryptocurrency users) and on social media platforms (for people that are crypto users as well as none crypto users) to get them informed that such project do exist. We cannot always say that with bounty hunting, the assurance of a project to gain success will be there. It will need a team effort from the developers to make strategic marketing approach to close a deal for investors to get their interest about the project to gain funds. Well actually, bounty hunters can also be potential investors so doing bounty is really a great help but is not enough because it do still need a support from the developers so that the project will move towards success.

Bounty is only one of the way to create awareness about crypto projects, there are many other ways.
The promotions and marketing alone is not enough to make investors come to the project,
the team of the project must have some actions like controlling the price of the token, exchange listing, token burning, etc.

Though bounty is one of the viable means of promoting a project  because If you search for the general meaning of “Bounty”, you can relate it as a reward or prize. Its has been deep-rooted in the online gaming world. The same concept has been utilized for the ICO Bounty Program.
Here, the rewards are in the form of tokens. That helps one to connect with people of the blockchain community and you can save some money on paid promotions.
 The purpose of bounty is not only getting your tasks done but as I said before, it is cutting costs on paid promotions, creating awareness among the targeted audience and getting in touch with the members of blockchain community.
Which is not enough because a tree does not make Forest but when it's included with team work that is the team work together by monitoring and regulating the necessary  at least to some extent good result is sure

Marketing of a project encompasses a whole lot. Well, you are not far from the truth since cryptocurrency depends on popularity to promote a project. Although bounty hunting is not the only way to generate popularity and attention of a project to potential investors, we should not relegate the fact that some bounty hunters are also investors themselves.

All of course is good and right, but not quite. There are different companies with different approaches to their implementation. In general, the lack of a bounty company in the project is bad manners.

This is correct, but only few of the bounty hunters are really investing in a certain project.
The team is in charge of making the project popular, its their job to make the marketing effective, hence they do every kind of advertisement they know to sell the project and to make it successful, and when the project is successful, we can say easily that the bounty is also a success.

in the end, bounty hunters and investors will benefit.

some projects do not run a bounty program and only promote it through their social media or through their marketing team.
but there is no harm in also promoting using the forum, so it depends on the dev to promote or not their project.

As far as I can see, most bounty hunters will not invest in the projects they promote, because they know the quality of the project. Bounty execution projects are bullshit projects and they were created with the purpose of scam investors. From 2018 until now, I have not seen any project succeeding with bounty

Judging from the campaigns that have been submitted by bounty hunters through forums, that most are seen by real investors. Nevertheless this campaign is very effective in making a project more quickly known. Where a good project does not look at one eye from just one angle. Therefore a project will be well in accordance with the policies of the project

As far as I know, the project team is not allowed to control the price of the token. If they did that, they might be breaking the law because they manipulated the price. The price of the token must depend on the market and outside investors

Many projects have been successful without running a bounty program because they have had success with their own development or marketing so there is no need to need a bounty program, but every project is always there to promote their success with airdrop or giveaway.
But it seems like it's very rare to see such a project because it's not in the forum whereas we are actively active every day in the forum.

Well it's true that only a few hunters invest in a bounty program that they follow, maybe only 10%.
But on average hunters now only want to get big rewards from their projects so that many are blindly projecting the project in any way it can even be with multiple accounts.

But projects that will succeed will certainly be more concerned with their development with the products they build so it is easier to be popularized /

Certainly, bounty campaigns alone are not enough to reach the right audience and advertise the project well. We can think of it just like companies advertising on different platforms. If a newly established company advertises only on TV channels or promotes its product through TV channels only, it cannot reach the right customer base and obtain the targeted sales figures or investors. This is the same rule in cryptocurrency projects, and only projects that organize bounty campaigns can never reach the right audience. Organizing a bounty campaign alone is not the right thing for this reason, and we can see that most of the projects are directed not only to this area but also to various advertisement areas. In order to reach the right target audience, reach the project to more people and achieve success, no project should limit itself only with the bounty campaign.

The quality of a project is what will attract investors, so it's not a bounty hunters fault if a project failed because of dump, if the project have quality use case there will be high demand for such coin and the more bounty hunters dump the more others keep buying

Leave those devs putting blame on hunters aside, they produce crap projects and blinded hunters still promotes for them in the end they put blame on hunters for their own unprofessional jobs, who baked a project if not the developers? Why blaming hunters ?

Choosing a bounty campaign as a way to promote their project is certainly the right and efficient thing in my opinion because if a new project develops, it will be very difficult to pay the promotion costs in another way because promotion usually requires a lot of funds, and the method of paying cash before promotion is done but if the aforementioned developer promote their project in the forum of course the funds needed are only a small amount and also usually the payment for bounty participants is done after the project sale is complete, and that too if the project sales get softcap and if the softcap is not reached, the developer does not need to pay the bounty hunter work and of course it is very beneficial for the project developer.

Yes,it's true mate. bounty campaign only help to become more popular and hype. It doesn't help to gain investor. Even there are so many good projects they came to market and doing well without doing any bounty campaign. Actually Investor don't invest by showing bounty hunters post and they are smart to choose good project.

Absolutely agree with your thought and of course bounty is not enough for reach to success, that's why many projects don't reserve token for bounty program now days. The way bounty hunters (maximum) doing their work it's totally abuse. I can't see any good work besides translation and signature campaign, max we can say video/article campaign.But social media and other campaigns are too much shady now days. Many times and many people talk about it in this thread but you can do nothing if people pretending to not listen.

I think there is something wrong with promoting if it does not gain investors, the purpose of the bounty is to gain investors, so if that is not effective, then they should stop the bounty campaign, am I right?  :-\

You are wrong, it's all about how good the project is, even if a million bounty Hunter promotes the project it will fail, project teams are responsible for the outcome of their projects not bounty hunters, we promotes and the quality of the project do the rest

It is clear that the bounty campaign is to get a lot of attention from investors; there is no other reason than that.

The sequence is the bounty campaign to create awareness of the project. Investors then check the quality of the project and decide whether to invest or not.

I totally agree with you, bounties are meant to create awareness within the cryptocurrency market, when there are many posts about a project, lots of people and potential investors becomes aware of it and pick partial interest and proceed to dig out more about the guenuity of the project. Team is entirely responsible for drawing in investor with a sellable usecases, product development, excellent marketing team, good and influencer partnerships and attendance of crypto events

Investors always see which projects should be invested right and sometimes at times like this they always choose the best in looking for profits in new projects because most have now failed to continue on new projects.

The bounties continue to try to promote to and fro to seek the attention of many people so that more Public know them again.

You are right but i think bounty campaign with high popularity & have good value push some bounty hunter to buy & hold the coin.. because they trust with the project...

I don't totally agree, because this bounty is somehow large. Don't forget it includes YouTube, short clips on lectures can be used on Twitter and Facebook book as long as it is precise enough with the necessary information. The few bounty participants we have today where did they learn how to trade, many learnt it on social media  here. Team movement will be a bonus though but more for the illiterate or few who are not really good on technology.

We can say that the bounty alone is not enough to get and gain good number of investors because as we all know this bountirs are good for sprrading and gaining some words to other people so that the investors will be able to know it and this bounty hunters will be able to get investors because they are promoting the project but before that happens the project must have first a good snd lrgit whitepapers so that the investors will not be able to afraid on investing to them.

This is totally correct. Bounty hunters are just one of the means to spread the word. There are a lot more marketing strategies required to attract actual investors. For example, an article is read by thousands of users but the question is how many really invested in the project reading that article?
All marketing plans can reach users/investors but only leads or registrations depend on the product and its niche in the market.

If the promoters are serious enough, then they have a number of options to attract high quality investment. For example,they can conduct a third party audit or promise to keep the funds in escrow. Steps such as these ones are going to attract a lot of investment, especially from the mainstream investors. But many of the projects don't want to go for them, as they want quick cash without much effort.

I agree with you, there are several unworthy bounties on the forum, and perhaps as a learner that is why i am restricted to participate in chosen few.
As i learn the way of the forum, and also garner more experience about crypto currency

You're right a startup should have obtained some initial seed funding to launch the idea before seeking the potential in crowdfunding utilizing cryptocurrencies, but it all depends on the quality of the project and that can't be emphasized enough... quality over quantity

The fact is that a lot needs to be done, first, on the drawing board of most of these projects. If someone or a team is planning to push out a project, initial or starting fund is very essential.
What actually draws the line between most projects is the fact that some of them have more money to start something meaningful. If you can drive it first with your money, then the community will support. Getting it right at the first stage will minimize the problem that will be encountered in future and that will enable quick solution for such a project.

I agree with your opinion, many bounty hunters join the bounty campaigns for money. Their motivational source is money, of course. Please don't count the useless things such as enthusiasm for the new project. If the project is new and has not been done anything useful for a crypto community who will have enthusiasm for 2 weeks altcoin?

I think that crypto projects need to buy advertisement on Youtube and other social media. Nowadays only scam projects buy advert, but good projects don`t do it, I don`t know why they act such way, because bounty is really not enough

The main purpose could be promoting of bounty campaign. By distribution bounty rewards, projects earned extra person to hold their token, trade their token and sometimes could be investor. If price is below ICO, huge numbers of hunters hold their token. I believe for one successful projects need all types of users.

So you say projects need to buy yt ads but at the same time say that only scam projects do it. Make up your mind!

There are no better or worse ways of legit advertising. There can be only scam advertising like paying youtubers to lie about you. Bounties are not a bad way to gain visibility especially through translations.

Although the bounty does not attract big investors, at least the bounty has helped to introduce a project among the community and another if the bounty hunter can also become an investor even with only a small fund.

right, all the way there are certainly risks. but indeed as a community we can use it to promote a project. and actually this is as effective as 2017, where many projects have had success. therefore the situation also supports the success of a project

Maybe your right but it will depend of course on the strategy of the campaign. Typical bounty launches social media and signature and even youtube and blog campaigns. These are the common grounds of marketing but what if they incorporate a much unique way? I am not saying a different but these ways or method are typical and might not just gonna pulled it off with just a tip of a finger. Well yeah, social media is a good platform for spreading but where is the hub of investors? On twitter? Im not so sure, not all have interest with that. Maybe some campaign should advance to a more sophisticated way oj promotions.

The most effective way to attract investors and make sales quickly and efficiently is to do IEO at large exchangers such as Binance, Okex or Huobi. The IEO sales period at the exchanger only lasted for a short time but sometimes there was no bounty campaign for the project

yes it happens  . bounty hunters one said that he also invest on the bounties that he promotes especially if he find that bounty really good because there are also good bounties , only rare to find .

bounty is alone is not enough i agree but i think the owner are already aware with it  , that is why many of them also promote on other platforms  or some even promote on a real world which is cool because people see it directly and the explanation or the answer to peoples queries are straight to the point  .

yes, as you have explained above, this is quite logical because promoting projects in this forum alone is not enough to attract the attention of investors. one of the best ways is to hold events with people out there so they can attract outside investors. A good project certainly has an experienced team, a complete work map, a real project concept or product, and also how the project advisor performs when offering their project to investors.

This is the difference between fake/scam projects and the legit/true projects,
Most of the fake/scam project only rely on bounty and doesn't have a good marketing strategy while the true project have it all figured out they have everything that is needed to secure their project.

You're right, fake projects are just relying in their bounties to promote and not putting too much effort because they have a motive to runaway  regardless of the number of investors who trust them. The difference between legit and scam is you know the project is worth to invest if the team are doing their best to spread the word of how can their project be useful if people support it.

Bounty campaigns are done not just to gather investors but mostly for publicity reasons. It is very important for any project the exposure of their project names by all means especially to social medias and youtube channels.

It is true to make successful crypto projects not enough to rely on bounty campaigns, because bounty campaigns only spread information
projects in the cryptocurrency community only. To cover a wider area, we need a professional marketing team that is used to making
a project becomes known to many people. Especially the target is new investors who are outside the cryptocurrency community.

How do different financial specialists that don't have a record in here would see ventures worth their speculation? Despite the fact that they can visit the gathering secretly and see the mark of the activities and club that they can play, bet, or even contribute at, we can't expect that those marks alone would expand the potential financial specialists that a task can get.

This is the reason a few bounties expand their scope through methods for social medias and articles.

we need to know that now investor interest in new projects has greatly declined. the team must think of strategies other than the bounty campaign to be able to get investors. whereas now there are too many bounty projects with promises of large payments that they always break.

knowing the good projects right now doesn't seem to be enough. if you want to grow, you should find another business without leaving the bounty. however, choosing a project that is really serious is difficult. in fact, even though we can see the potential seriousness of the project, we don't know whether the project will really run smoothly or not. it will affect your payment to become a bounty hunter for them.

Of course, the project can not completely rely on the bounty campaign, but I believe that the bounty campaign is a very effective tool to create a lot of noise around the project. if the project is taken by a quality bounty manager, then this project is trusted and even many bounty hunters become investors

True as you said, because a project certainly needs strong support from various communities, so that, the project will be expanded faster, of course one of them is support from the bounty hunter community that can help each project to promote the project to the wider and of course with a lot of supports gained will attract investors to invest their money in a project. But in my opinion, it is not the prize manager who can determine whether the project is successful or not, but because the project has good quality and a clear road map that will make many people interested in joining.

Yes you’re right about that. It’s not only about bounty campaigns. The team should be good at what they promise to do and also have their social platforms on Twitter , LinkedIn (the whole team should be here and active, and it shouldn’t be a new account, but one that has been created for a long time), Facebook and maybe Instagram, and they should also have a telegram account.

With social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram they can run good promotion with more details on what their project is all about and even add videos that summarizes everything. These are ways they can draw lots of investors.

I don't agree with your point, especially this part. Crypto events and network with people can be brought to hype up or to fool investors (see Bitconnect or many scam coin with thier social event). Bounty is most basic thing in marketing, simply put and attract their attention by giving away your product aka coin in this case.

Lol, miractele team attended many crypto events in 2018 and in the end they scam many like myself, just because project team are going to one crypto event to another did not mean they are real

The big marketing is the platform and the project's potential, investors are wiser now, they know what project to invest and what to look, I don't know what this closing ability is, everything are presented as it is  the developers and the bounty hunters already know if the project will become a success from the start all they have to do is to present to the potential investors.

Sometimes it's not only about getting investors but creating brand awareness. Mind some of these bounties are small scale investors and they are the ones who will trade the token when it's listed. Besides, bounty is less expensive

Actually hunting is one of the part of promoting any project. Besides this team takes many steps to promote their project like conference, fair presentation, sponsorship etc. So team must not depends on bounty hunting but they can not neglect it as hunting is massively connected to social media.

Bounty with its nature now can't and won't be enough for anyone, bounty isn't paying anymore.unlike before and nothing regarding bounty is moving anymore, plan B will help one grow up to solve issue regarding family and self. Relying on bounty won't help

It is paying, I mean those who are not scammers will pay, but the problem is on how you will be able to the reward as sometimes it will take time to get the token listed and worst is it dump very hard and you are not getting the value you are expecting, that is the sad reality now.

The golden time has pass, we need to face the present while keep the hopes high a new altcoin season will come again.

Yes it's very difficult now a days to find good project or bounty campaign. Having said that coming back to the topic as most of the projects doesn't have good amount of funding available. So for them only way to promote a project is through bounty for big guns they use main-stream media for promotions.

Don't keep those 'high hopes' remain in you guys.
It should be let it happen if it will and just focus on the things that you do. I don't want to disappoint the others too but you are right, the best time for bounty was done.

There is a lot of truth in your statement, however, I would like to remind you that very often bounty hunters themselves become investors. And bounty advertising is aimed at people who understand and are interested in cryptocurrency. With bounty campaigns, projects become cryptospace-aware and find investors. There are other ways, but bounty is still relevant.

everything you say is true, bounty hunters only help to have a large community while attending events and advertising on several cryto sites to attract investors

Nope. If you know any sources to provide as proof do so, because the current data reveals the opposite. Majority of bounty hunters are going to dump after that project gets listed on exchanges, if it ever gets listed that is. ;D

You may call bounty hunters similar to quick flippers. But honestly they were at one time just spamming this forum for getting their bounty rewards. The real money base came from the first world country people and that why the SEC cracked down on the ICOs.

Bounty is aimed at generating awareness, how much efficient is another story. But its relevance was important in the past when it was dont meticulously when it was not a farming of alt accounts to steal the reward from the owners.

In other words, some bounty hunters lead to the demise of every bounty hunter. ::)

If everyone keep thinking that the best time for bounty is over no one will be here right now, everyone would have left for other means but so far 2020 is way better than last year, 80% of bounties that come out this year are quality projects

Everyone would have left? I don't think so, this forum is one of the sources of information when it comes to cryptocurrency, this forum is not only alive because of bounty campaigns.

And how can you tell that about 80% of bounties that come out this year are quality projects? Are you really sure about that?

Your statement is accurate in just a few cases. Hunter is not just posting.Senior Hunter is a lot of people who give a lot of thought. Then they do marketing.
And many project seniors get promoted because of marketing.

If we examine in terms of thinking and marketing, it is not only done by hunters who are already senior, but hunters who are not yet senior also sometimes provide good and effective thinking for everyone to do.

now, I began to feel it, that bounty alone is not enough to meet our needs. we know that most likely, bounties pay a little longer, and most of the time span is 3 months, and that's also not very clear. however, to meet our daily needs, I think we need another job, whether it's trading, or finding a job.

What are you talking about? This is not discussing bounty payment as our daily needs, but it is about promoting a project that is not enough if only doing bounty

of course you have to need work in the real world because at the moment the bounty campaign is not very profitable, maybe if in 2017 you can count on your bounty campaign and can be your economic source but when giving different answers, now it has been shown that the bounty campaign not suitable as the main job but make the bounty campaign as your side job.

The bounty has been quite unproductive to me as a bounty campaign participants, this ranging from social medias and signature campaign through the bounty. The only one that's more productive for me is the content creations. Though, this has been tough as it takes more time to create but when this is done on a good ground, the rewards are huge and during conversion through exchange more profits can be see. Content and video creation give more reward for bounty.

off course the market is also changing that is why we need to adapt to way of promoting crypto projects and one way is not enough to saturate such market and audience.

in terms of project development, in fact, it is not enough, because there are more important things, like a solid clear team roadmap and the project will really last in the long run.
if you rely solely on promoting prizes to raise funds, a fraud project can do it.

you cannot blame them because most of the people Hoping for the altcoin season is those who Holds the coins for long time now.
so it is depend in which person is hoping .
and also disappointment is part of being investors here since the prices are volatile and may change at any time.
But i am sure you as cryptonians also waiting for the time that prices will Go high again like the past halving.

Yes, in terms of looking for more profits it is not enough if we only follow the bounty, because now there are many ways that can be taken by someone to get profits, one of them by trading and analyzing market conditions at any time.

You're right mate, bounty promotion isn't enough to have gotten the needed announcement of the project to the entire public for investment. With the ICO been conducted with series of projects that has been done before now, there seems to be a link between the ICO and the investors. Many investors sees ICO as a means to scam them from their belongings even the means of IEOs too. This has be more reasons why projects promotion need to be more sincere to the investors than ever to redeemed their image. Personally, am scare of investing in any project promoted through ICO and IEO, I don't want my funds go into tin air without a return.

Yes, that's right, if we follow the bounty to meet our daily needs, then obviously we will be overwhelmed because of that, because everyone certainly knows that bounty payments often occur in the long run, so it won't be enough for someone if they only rely on the bounty.

It seems too high if you make a percentage at 80% for a quality project this year, because there are several projects that are running and they all are also not necessarily fully successful in the current conditions.

80% of the projects this year high quality? I disagree too...
Until April, I have not benefited anything from the bounty, even one of the projects that were said to be the best this year Insure PAUSED their campaign, this plague made investors worry so the certainty of the bounty campaign was decreasing.

I also see a lot of quality projects running bounty this year. But I think it is not up to 80%. Only about 30-40% of current projects are good enough for us to spend time and participate in them

Indeed, bounty campaign is just one of many ways to promote the cryptocurrency project.
The team can create awareness by distributing their token like kickico team, so that peoples can look into their project.

yes indeed your argument is true, but we know the majority of new projects is lack of fund, that's why they use bounty campaign to promote their project, the bounty is not the most effective method to reach investors, but bounty campaign in many cases is the only method they can afford to promote their project

yeah, does not seem that there are quality project, maybe other way around, only 20% are of some quality and it is a question will they survive after initial bounty, because of them except good idea do not have good roadmap which could bring idea to the surface

actually, i have maid an overview of current bounties here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240466.msg54221003#msg54221003
you can check that out

Sometimes they're lack of real potential in the market like the real deal how their project will be more accurate and solve the issues of the problems in the market. They must learn the mistakes of the previous projects that already failed like listing partnership in unreliable exchange and lack of awareness in promoting in various crypto sites and media. I think now crypto project must have much backup money before they start in the industry. They must survive in every hard drop in the market.

And we cannot deny that bounty campaigns is a huge part of the project as a whole, because most of the projects are crypto-based, therefore, their target group of people are those inclined with this industry. And the team's marketing strategy is no longer surprising through bounty projects it is like rooting for the core people needed for a subject matter.
The goal, I think, of bounty projects is to promote the existence of a project itself. Participants of a project may not directly promoting the project but it still spreads awareness. It is indeed true that the long term run of a project depends on the team's effort regarding with their plan, not including means of promotion thru bounty campaigns, but it is also true that bounty projects are part of that 'effort'.

As far as I know, the KickICO project is dead, they distribute airdrop randomly to everyone. But people can't sell them because the project team has locked this token contract indefinitely. It is a good way to promote the project, but it will make many people angry and saying that this is a scam project.

To some extent Bounty campaign is not enough but not to be written off completely. Some hunters are also investors and I believe its still on the same social media which the developers advertise their tokens that Bounty hunters promote their tokens too. So I think Bounty hunters gives a project more media coverage.

I don't have any problem with projects locking their tokens after distribution, where it matters to me most is that after the locking duration, let the wait be worthwhile, its only when a project flops after waiting that people should lash.

this is a very important post about new projects depending on bounties as the only marketing strategy to market their project. the possiblity of projects conducting bounty immediately after launching could be sign of a scam project that is interested in collecting peoples fund. Meanwhile quality projects spends time to develop their token and marketing their project before considering bounties. most projects doesn't conduct bounties again.

This is actually a great point you made. Nowadays, you need a strong marketing team in order to sell your products. In the case of cryptocurrency, if your technology is good enough, you are marketing yourself already, and sometimes, bounty doesn't even help to that.

Bounty campaign to me is not useful for any project marketing success. Hunters are friends with each other, they help carry out their activities. It's hard to find any investor through bounty tasks especially social media activities. Projects should be able to reach out to Angel investors or VC and also employ influences for marketing their project.

I totally agreed with you bounty campaigns are not enough to expose any project to investors .The exposure of a project depends on it's team and their effort.But on the other hand bounties are also important they help to spread more information about a project both on the forum and on social media channels.

You may be right but also hunters are needed in another view . You might think the hunters post are not helping, but it is. Investors differs and there are some publicity some by hunters on top site. These are why new project wont joke with hunters .

40% is too generous maybe 10 percent or lower, we can't also guarantee if the project survives the long term, if it does then it's worthy to be called a quality projects, not alot of them survive after 1 or 2 years.

Thats true, because most of bounty hunters are using their fake facebook ,twitter , youtube accounts for bounty campaigns.

 but then what should they need to do for get investors to their projects. what did you mean by "team's marcketing" .

Solid marketing techniques are the foundation of a successful projects and bounty campaign is a part of it, yes it is not enough to bring a good amount of investors that is why marketers are doing some meet ups in order to gather some potential investors. And for other solid projects, they are looking for a solid partners as it can also boost their popularity among the investors especially if they can form a partnership to a trusted company or organization.

But as you can see why many successful projects are putting so much effort to bounty campaigns because it is tested already that it can help to hype their project which can help them in spreading their project in every corner of the world and the investors will surely to follow especially if they can see that the project has the potential.

all new projects will certainly expect investors to be able to join, but to reach it requires a bounty campaign to be affordable to many parties through all available social media. because social media is an effective and best way to provide information. So it's wrong if you say that the campaign bounty cannot attract investors. I agree that marketing from the team is needed to attract investors to place funds. therefore not just a bounty campaign needs to be carried out, there must also be a direct event for investors through several seminars held in order to be clear about the objectives to be achieved.

Of course, the project prefers to pay to be able to hold IEO on famous exchanges. Still, the cost to be ready to IEO on prominent exchanges is not small, the prices are higher than the costs incurred to create a bounty campaign, but the success of IEO on well-known exchanges is higher compared to holding a bounty campaign.

If the project is solid and promising, and has real potential in the market, they can always go to top exchanges for their IEO like BNB. And sometimes they don't need bounty programs anymore as when for example BNB announced it on their launchpad, people already are waiting for that project. That is, if it is in BNB. But try small to medium exchanges with bad reputation, even if they will announce their upcoming IEO projects, they still find it hard to acquire funds.

now bounty campaigns are dying as a tool of marketing of cryptocurrency projects. especially with apperience of such tool as ieo. remember ieo of binance, they do not needbounty campaigns.

Yes, but what is explained here is not about the promotion of the bounty project, but rather towards the bounty hunters, they will not be enough if they only follow the bounty, because the income through the bounty at this time is no longer as big as the previous bounty, thus making the hunters must work harder at places other than the bounty.

Bubbalex usually do review of his campaign, which I expect other bounty manager to adopt. I also want mangers to take record of the twitter followers, youtube view, telegram group members etc before and after campaign, probably take a poll in the group after the campaign on how members get to know about the project. I believe this information might help to focus on relevant social media channel to attract investors and increase campaign there.

some IEO in binance has a bounty, for example, one harmony. that is one example of a project that pays quite well when it has a bounty. however, that is not often the case, because of that the bounty alone will not be enough to meet your daily needs, even more so if you find it difficult to do research on projects that you will support.

bounty is only to expand the community, to attract investors depends on team performance. Jikatim always follows blockchain events and advertises on several crypto sites, of course many investors will be interested to join

It made him more professional than the others. I really like the way he works because he usually does everything very quickly and on promises. If there were any new campaigns coming from him, I would definitely never miss

It is hardly worth agreeing with your arguments. Participants in the ICO Bounty Signature Campaign make a great contribution to advertising new ICO projects. This forum is the most famous among those who discuss the problems of cryptocurrency development and at the same time provide marketing services to new ICO projects. Many potential investors on this forum are looking for worthy projects in which to invest their money. A great help in this is provided by our signatures, which we wear when publishing our messages. Studies on this subject have already been carried out more than once and they clearly confirmed this. And bounty hunters themselves in many cases are investors in new ICO and IEO projects.

I hereby agree on that. Launching bounty campaigns are really not enough to assure the success of a certain project for it just getting the attention and letting the crowd to know that such project do exist. The success of the project still relies and depends on the team behind it to further promote and do the marketing to let investors to get into investing in the project. Even though launching a bounty is not enough, still it plays a big role for people to see and get curious about the project. Any projects must not rely or depend the outcome or success of the project into bounties because the success is worked by the whole team providing marketing strategies to close a deal and the important thing is the idea of the project and how it will be executed will give a big impact on the success of the project. Bounty is just a part of a phase to be done to promote the project and success cannot be reliant on the first step because marketing strategy will matters the most together with the objective and idea of the project itself.

Bounty can't be enough to gain investors, have you ever see any project that raised fund through bounty promotion? Bounty is just a part to create more awareness, projects use ICO and IEO alike to raise funds so?

Of course, the main investors are partners of the project, but it’s no secret that many people have additional income by investing in small shares in various interesting projects. And it's thanks to the bounty and social networks that the project’s advertising information is distributed

The relevance of bounty campaign today cannot be overemphasized. No matter how small the bounty community might be, they will still help in their own to propagate the project to the crypto world.
There isn't anything good without its own shortcomings, even negativities and should not be blamed for that. Some honest bounty hunters will still do their best the give the project the needed shut. With the assistance of bounty hunters, some projects have been able to make it into the market successfully.

I don't really get the idea behind asking users to spread these bounties' content over their social accounts like Twitter, Facebook, Telegram as I believe that the only potential investors to be found on a social platform is LinkedIn, but nobody asks for this platform nor talks about it. Bounty campaign is just for those who want to gain those free coins and nothing, and such category cannot be classified as potential investors as you won't find any due to the fact that these people only care about making a buck and are never interested in investing a penny in that project, as well as they don't even invest the coins (BTC or Eth) that they get either through these projects or by selling their tokens.

Bounty alone is really not enough to make the project become successful because doing or launching a bounty is just a first phase of the project and it is made to create popularity on which let the crowd know that a certain project do exist nowadays. Still the future of the project lies or depends into the strategic mind of the team behind the project to present the idea and concept of the project to be able to satisfy the interest of the potential investors and to close a deal to support and make the project work going to the path of success. Project must not only rely on bounty alone because it is just s front phase of letting the project be popular or known and not the assurance for what will be the outcome of the project itself.

What is the problem with most of the projects is that they don't know they will need to work very hard in the first couple of years, and in that time to not take any profit! Bounty alone is just a beginning, but every project needs upgrades, constant monitoring, developing on all fields, money they get to invest in equipment. Most of the teams take first profit and they abandon projects and investors stay with worthless tokens.

Man, you caught the nerves exactly why an investor fears from investing into such projects:

- Tokens don't get listed on an exchange due to team's laziness or running away with money

- Tokens get listed in a low-quality exchange where no big volume is available, so there's no liquidity in the markets there and the token becomes useless

- Even if there is enough liquidity, people tend not to trade it as it is highly risky because investors are themselves watching for other people to add some volume and pump the token from where these investors start taking out their profits by dumping their coins on these buyers

- Investors fear the possibility of the team dumping all their premined tokens on the markets which will make the tokens go worthless

It depends on the individual, there are several peeps on the forum who use Bounty hunting as their leisure tasks, and they focus on quality rather than quantity.

For them, Bounty is enough because they are opportune to so only signature and contents most time.

But if you use Bounty as a full time job as i do. Bounty is not enough, we need offline jobs too

All shady startups are like that. They have a lot of vaporware to tell people but are just going to exit the market after a few years. It is the risk that you have to take if you are going to invest in them.

It is because the abandonment was a pre-determined thing. It cannot be proven but assumed because if project owners have the cheek to sell away the project and turn off all social media communication then there is no denying this fact unless proven otherwise. Bounty is a just a method to make some idiots promote their scam and get more investors, giving them some worthless tokens in return.

More often bounty leads to empty chats with a lot of bots, unprofessional comments, mainly with the same content, uneducated community members, who ready to kill for 1 Satoshi.

The best promotion for the project - real use cases.

New projects have no respect for bounty hunters anymore, yet they need bounty hunters to promote their good or bad projects, after the campaign is over they will start showing some bad behavior, they might postpone payment, cut reward in half etc, since there is no way to know which one is good enough it's either you quit or keep taking risks

What kind of bounty promotion are you talking about? Social media platforms? Where 99% of persons followers or friends are bots or multyaccounts, where bots retweet/share projects info among each other? If I were a project representative, I would not pay for that kind of work :D This wont attract a lot of investors, this would only create "noise" in social media...

But I do agree that postponing payments and cutting reward are bad manners and projects who do that should be tagged as greedy. Plus they should not to be taken seriously.

I think the other way. Hunters are equally import through out the course of a project. Those angel investors won't have time to consistently keep the the brand awareness online. it the same hunter who form a community to keep the fire burning always. Who will invest in a project with small community. When it come to voting, its the same hunters that helps most project secure free listing and recognition in the space. I believe everyone is equally important  in order for a project to be successful.

Yes, good projects utilize everything they could possibly have to promote their project. Bounty is only one in many tools for marketing and if you do it right, you success but if you do it wrong (rule too lax, mult acc,...) then you could hurt your project.

Your point is straight up and very correct 👍. Bounty hunters are relevant, I've invested in two projects after going through articles on steemit, probably done by Bounty hunters, after doing my own thorough research. Hence being an investor and a hunter, I can say that hunters are relevant for project promotion but the team still needs extra effort in marketing. Any team which depends on hunters alone for promotion are not doing it right.

Would be great if there is other ways to make money in crypto than bounties, trading and investing but other ways are very challenging, they require special talents, I believe that bounties is the best marketing tools till date but teams shouldn't depend on bounties marketing alone

Very true about all your statement, that success of a project is not just from the bounty. I agree with you, that most bounties, especially social media bounties are only seen by bounties and investors rarely see or are interested in bounties. Important points from the project marketing team by attending various events about crypto are important things from marketing to attract investors. Bounty especially social media is only to achieve the popularity of the project among crypto users.

In addition to this some of bounty hunters too are investor some might have interest in that particular coin beside promoting them they might buy some of the coins during Pre-ICOs, bounty hunters ensures their is a wide coverage in promotion of that particular coin the importance of hunters in marketing and creation of awareness can't be overemphasized take it or leave it.

I have never really understood facebook/twitter campaigns. Participants always have other bounty hunters as friends/followers so the propagation of information only reaches bounty hunters mainly, not investors. I don't see the value in those campaigns other than I guess constant presence on these platforms. I understand translation campaigns as the project is able to reach different audiences, as well as the blog/video campaigns. What hurts the most from executing a bounty is the price after the token is listed on an exchange (if it even reaches this stage) because bounty hunters will sell for anything as they didn't invest their money, they invested their time so they want to see that time have some value. Investors, in the other hand invested money and would like that money to increased in value in time. Two different mindsets that are very opposite in my opinion.

There're many ways for making money in crypto, other than bounties, signature campaigns, trading and investing... I will say how much can you earn depends mostly on your skills. You can start with publish0x or lbry.tv, where you can write on first one, or upload and watch videos on second one. The more time and energy you spend on writing and filming, and if you gather many followers you can earn from that. It's just one of examples, you can try to invest in staking coins and to have some passive income from that.

Bounties alone can be enough, if they cover everything, forums, videos, social networks, blogs... if bounty manager manage to control participants to give their best to promote bounty, it will be visible everywhere. And that's a point of bounties, to be visible everywhere, so people can see it and invest in it.

Prices tends to be low upon listing on exchange of somecoins since people have different goal in such project. If those bounty hunter were also a investor or trader they will somehow keep it till the project fulfill their plan or limits, however this sometimes not happen as many bounty hunter even some investors who bought the coin in early stage with bonuses already withdraw their shares.
Bounty hunting alone is really not enough it was just an add factor for spreading words or references that the project is somehow being talked. There's a need for proper marketing and building of their names thru their own company.

Bounties promotion still works very well but for investors to come storming your token you have to bring in new utility that will bring good profits for investors, as a matter of fact investors aren't blind, if your project is repetitive or lacks good use case it won't attract investors

There was another way to get money just like staking and dividend too. When you are having a lot of money you can start to earn dividend through buy some coins that have real product that will always distribute the dividend periodically.

I'm in total agreement with your opinion, it's actually true that most post made by bounty hunters are viewed by other hunters and the major investors won't be convinced to make substantial investment, simply by the posts made by bounty hunters. The team has to build personal relationships with key investors in order to lure them to make their contribution.

Yes, only bounty is not sufficient for advertising the crypto project. But it is not easy to spread it all over the world through the crypto events and crypto network. Because cryptocurrency is prohibited in most of the countries. All these countries will restrict these crypto networks if it is used for advertising crypto project. Rather thousands of bounty hunters are helping to advertise all over the world through social media where govt cannot impose any restriction.

I'm agree with you, Bounty hunters can help spread project information throughout the world, with social media, forum, telegram etc but it's become so meaningless if only rely on bounty hunters, so the most important thing to attract investors is from the team itself. So team must do all good things to make a successful project

indeed if you are a bounty hunter, it is very less to get money on a monthly basis,
because bounties are usually paid 3-5 months, some are even longer

Some bounty hunters are only small promotions so still the team must have good marketing to investors in order to be able to trust the products they are running, sometimes there the team must be professional to be able to develop further so that success can occur in projects that the team runs.

if look at it from the present condition, it's really true that the bounty can't be fully expected, I personally respond to this,I was doing bounty and trading
and what I experience now, I can survive and make ends meet

Yours words are right but only to some certain extent: when we called something social what do we mean? We meant connecting people from different locations together. If you would agree with me, the best way to connect people together is through social media. Social media connects people even from areas where the project developers might not have the thought their  project would be seriously needed. Bounty campaigns spans alot  that even words can't express everything because of the ways different people handles it and the magnitude of results they were able to get from it.

It can spread awareness and attentions of possible investors when bounty hunters really take this as serious doing the task.


Meaningless in the sense of polluting the social site without any follow up progress and additional knowledge from the developer itself.


It's really depends from how the will work after reaching those target audience, how they will penetrate and make a good conversions.

everyone has different stories. I know a lot of people who have made a lot of money in bounty campaigns. They earned 3-4 times less on a regular job. I also received very large rewards but did not sell on time

Agree with you, even some bounty make payment after 1-2 years. When participating in bounty, you will not be able to make money quickly from it, from the end of 2019 until now I have never participated in a really successful bounty. Most of them are bullshit and scam in this market

Very impossible to make a living with bounty hunting. 2016-2017 was the year of its a possibility but it all changed suddenly in 2018. You can no longer make a living with it and you don't have to be dependent on bounty hunting.
The delays are there and there is no probable payment that you will receive as exact to what has promised because it's always been tentative and you'll be lucky if you get paid but if not, it's a disgusting expectation.

this is a sad truth, but I see a large number of people who making good money by participating in bounty campaigns. I continue to participate and believe that I will find my gold

Over the past year, payments have fallen by at least 10 times. I think you won't find your gold here. Unfortunately, now is a different time.

 Well i believe that bounty campaign is really a great way to make the project become more popular in crypto feild, but it is not enough,that is why some project use social media campaign so that many more invetors can see it and get the information about thier ICO or ITO i see that social media is also an amazing way in promoting projects because social media is now the best way of extending news and many people really used to get more information or news about the world.

Although bounty hunters make a great effort that may last for several months, the return they receive is a small return compared to their effort to promote the project every day, In these days in which we live, I think that the bounty alone is not enough to give good financial income to hunters like previous years, due to the greed of project managers to exploit workers and not give them a good percentage of project tokens, although they are the most important interface for the project to attract investors.

we know social media user growth very extreme in few years ago, and it could be good audience for crypto project. there are alot opportunity to make this social media users as crypto investors. by spreading promotion in twitter or other platform it will make project known by much people and hopefully some of them invest their money.

Yes of course, bounty alone is really not enough and the success of the project must not be reliant on the promotion because promotion without the action coming from the team developers of the project will not satisfactorily make the project come to success. This must be a group effort and coordination to make things out. The process of creating the project relies on the developer and then they will hire a bounty manager to take cover of the whole process of the promotion to gain popularity to be able to attract potential investors which will be made possible by the bounty hunters to take on the task of promoting the project. After that, everything will now be reliant on the team on how they will effectively execute the plan based on the roadmap which includes bounty distribution, listing on reputable exchange and how the project proposed will be executed. All in all, the success of the project will not be reliant on the bounty promotion because it is just part of the process on making the project succeed. In short everything relies on the coordination of the team, bounty manager and the bounty hunters as well as the potential investors to work things out.

First of all bounty is a medium of advertisement and from my view is the quickest way to get the attention of most crypto communities and from there the words get out there

Well, social media is indeed one indicator that is often used in analyzing a project. The number of followers is a measure of whether the community is strong or not. And with a bounty campaign, this will easily form a large community. This must also be supported by the active role of the dev team to provide information, related to achievement and targets for the next stage of development.
Nowadays, many people make social media as a reference, so the dev team must really manage this well in order to attract the attention of investors.
All of this must be based on quality and innovative products, unique tokenomics, and a solid team. All of this will form a strong foundation, with the support of bounty hunters it will make it easier to disseminate it.

How do you say it is only bounty hunters that will see the post? If I have over ten thousand twitter followers, are you saying all of them are bounty hunters? Potential investors might be among my followers and get to know about the project through this medium.

Do you know how to read?Op does not say a word "ONLY" instead he says MAJORITY because he have some points.

Look at you,posting without even reading the thread and you are the best example why OP says about that.

Every project needs more advertising and it is reality that you Bounty hunters are not enough ,extending other option is what they need to meet their goal in short period of time.

True! Running bounty campaigns is not enough to promote their projects! Developers need more options of advertising to achieve their expected  goal! Saying bounty is not enough doesn't mean that he says bounty hunters are not matter. Bounty hunters play an important role in promoting the project through out the market, we all know that!

Teams can't rely on bounty hunters to do all the work, now that ICO is not more the team must use better exchanges to raise fund because big investors are available on binance and other top exchanges, the project will sold out in seconds or minutes, bounty hunters promotions isn't as big as using top exchanges

In my opinion, their goal in making the Bounty program is to make their project famous in Crypto community, especially in this biggest Crypto forum. Yes, I agree with you if the Team must be able to build networks with the best people out there, they also have to join various Crypto events to get public support.

Maybe you suppose that real investors are who have lots of money and bounty programs can not reach out of them, but in my opinion, every person in this market including bounty hunters all may be investors of that project if they realize that it is really good and have many potentials. And when bounty hunters do their tasks such as share post or link about project, their friend may also become a investor like them as well.

If the team can do much more aside from bounty campaign then that would be beneficial to their project. Having wide coverage to spread their project means more people can see it and the chance to gain potential investors. But this forum alone is already an effective way to advertise the project due to the large number of members.

but sometimes the campaigns that are made are not well-targeted. some projects have targeted their project expansion but only a greedy person joins multiple accounts to get a large reward. bounty campaigns actually can't be so optimal for sales made.

Bounty hunters won't help team to implement better feature, bounty hunters won't help a project get listed on better exchanges, these isn't the work of bounty hunters, it's something that the team must do

bounty is really the best way to tell people who are already in the cryptocurrency world about a new project.  to attract investors who have not invested  in cryptocurrency yet teams are using other marketing tools

I know that all projects don't only do promotions on telegrams or bounties, they also hold AMAs and attend several events on the blockchain to attract investors

They need many different strategies to attract large investors in this market, Bounty and airdrop only help their community grow bigger and get more attention from people.

As effective as bounty promotion is good,because I know bounty promotion still cuts across a large area and bring in come investors,the team should also have other means of marketing and also holding AMAs,,also partnership also boost a project and advertises it on it own,so like OP said other form of advertisement should be added to bounty promotion.

Bounty campaign remains one of the most affordable methods for the project team to attract investment. They can make the payment using tokens, and if the project fails, then they don't need to pay anything. Advertising using third party services such as Google Adsense requires sizable initial capital and this amount won't be reimbursed if the project fails.

I agree that bounty is not enough to do marketing optimally. In optimizing marketing management, developers must make more funds for it because marketing has expensive costs. In this case bounty is a marketing method that has financial advantages because they are paid using a token allocation and this is the reason the developer uses bounty marketing but the effect is not so much to reach investors.

That is correct,  having a bounty campaign only exposes projects to other forum members. Attending conferences and being active in social media platforms are also needed. The marketing team plays a huge role in the success of the project during the early phase. Everything will fall into pieces once they have gathered enough supporters because the community will help expose the project if it shows a huge potential.

 True. The project can not completely depend on the bounty campaign even though it is really effective. With social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram they can run good promotion with more details on what their project is all about and even add videos that summarizes everything.

Bounty hunters help projects in all aspect, both gaining popularity and investors, though sometimes the team also has alot to do in securing investors trust, but still bounty hunters also has their role to play.

This topic has already discussed about the bounty hunters must do another thing to get the profit and the hunters can't even rely on the bounty as the way to earn from the crypto market. The hunters must be more creative to try to invest or trade in the market too.

Yes, obviously a different strategy must always be carried out by the project team so that they can make the project successful on time, the only problem now is that it is very difficult to find investors who really want to stay on the project.

Probably your statement was true but each team was they have on role to do the job well done they have their marketer to get more investors or possible partnership to increase the popularity of the project, and also the bounty hunter and airdropper are spreading awareness of the project they have big contribution into marketing.

Indeed, our role here is very important as a promotion needed for projects that want to achieve their goals and I believe the promotion of hunters will improve the quality of their projects and are increasingly known among investors.

That's true the development team should see to it that they have a product worth supporting, not just a pump and dump project with no real usage in the community, projects come and go now, investors now want a project that will evolve like Tron Binance and Eos among others, easy for this kind of project to get funded and supported if they see a project that will evolve for a long time.

I agree with the points you raised. Project team should not rely on a single strategy, but must harness every marketing strategy; combine multiple marketing strategies from all sides. It is very important not to leave any stone unturned.
I don't have statistics to back this up, but from the bounty campaign, we do have hunters that invest heavily in the project they're working for. It is an addition from this group.

Maybe your point is right. But don't turn down bounty hunters, we plays a big role in promoting the project and helps to attract investors, and sometimes bounty hunters themselves are also becoming investors in the projects he joined.

Op is saying a deeply truth because most of the promotion done on social media are only seen by the other or fellow hunters and not getting to real investors, I have also thought about that for a very long time and so projects failed for lack of good promotions.
One major factor considering absolutely promotions is funds available to help conduct signature campaigns as this is the fastest growing techniques ever, and at some point, hunters aren't getting paid at all or paid in a penny amount.

Are you saying that bounty is not worthy?

For your information, many projects during the year 2017 had bounty campaigns in this forum. They are all hyped because of bounty hunters who are spreading the projects throughout the world. Bounty campaigns are helpful for the projects. That is why you should not underestimate the power of bounty marketing. We can say that the bounty becomes useless when the project itself is trying to scam the people. Either tha bounty hunters, managers, or investors.

Yeah...bounty is not even really paying nowadays, unlike before.  It's only few projects now that reward well, remaining larger percentage are just works that amount to nothing.  I do tell some hunters to also invest, not just get the reward and sell it immediately.  If we also add some level of investment, it will also go a long way.  Diversification is a good way of making more.

yes you are 100% right, I also see that currently the project only relies on bounty campaigns to attract investors. Few projects actually spend money on advertising their projects on popular cryptocurrency sites or attending events

The beautiful days of bounty campaign is long gone. Bounties is not forte paying as before. Bounties is just a waste of time and energy.
Bounties is just for awareness purposes nothing much, the popularity of project doesn't only depend on bounty campaigns to surge but it helps to build awareness for the project

in this regard of course depends on the marketing team in promoting or offering their products into the crypto market. investors will be attracted if the concept is promising, the product is real and continues to grow in the market. as well as how big the project partner itself is.

Marketing actually brings trust and willingness to invest and also as you said attending crypto conferences would prove your genuineness towards your project growth which will likely trigger investors to buy because you have already shown yourself to be real. Regarding bounty, it's another avenue of creating publicity and understand investors are not only in conferences but also online in search of good projects so bounty would play a great role via publicity.

The main thing in my opinion is the development team.  Fame and experience play a big role.  The crypto community knows successful people.  Especially if the project team already has well-known projects.  Also the development of the company, in terms of usefulness for users.

In my opinion Bounty campaigns is a great tool in promoting projects, Most of those bounty hunters have several followers and spreading the news everywhere on a place like Reddit , twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and youtube  really publicize such projects to a wider audience and investors could get information from  any of this channels .

Most investors dance to hypes on a project , so the more a project is hype , i think the more attention that is drawn to such projects. I am still wondering how best developers can market their projects without the help of bounty hunters.
Although Developers have a part to play by being proactive and following their roadmap but bounty hunters services are essential.

I disagree with you completely, only content creation can not help promote a project, social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook plays a very vital role, infact I will say that's the bedrock of project promotion

He is not talking on what is of benefit to the project this time, but he is talking about what is more of benefit to bounty hunters and i quite agree with him. There are no so many participants in social mediabounty. If you can always write good content for projects, some of them do reward high quality differently. Then, you can be lucky to be well rewarded.

I think you're right, there's not enough for promote by bounty. I know not all bounty hunters do promote with their creativity word and most of them is only do copy-paste. But there are not problem if the bounty manager are good to manage the bounty. Only they give the stake for bounty hunters.

I should of been more clearer with my words, other bounties do have some good effect in them, but a quality content benefits far outweighs them.

Bounty is only intended as a marketing tool to promote a project, this is not the fault of the bounty worker and it is a marketing error why it doesn't get investors, usually it also tends from the founder of the project as well as their team sometimes not really seriously developing anything that attracts investors too they even not on time in fulfilling the road map, so that investors do not want to enter the project because they are worried about risks, again that investors can come from a bounty event held from a good project

Yes you are really right there. But most of the projects promoted here are scam and literally are not paying at all. This is why most of the bounty hunters got no pay when they promote a certain project. Still others do believe that they had join a good project to which will then pay them after yet it won't. No matter how good project is when they talk about the white papers, the plan the road map and good news for the project still not a guarantee that the project is good and not a scam project. This is why no more reputable bounty managers handling projects because they do not want to get tag as scammer promoting scam project. And as you can see most of the projects are posted by newbie, copper member, jr. member and member. But of course not all are scam there are still few good projects here in the forum and there are lucky users who were able to join that kind of project.

Your correct bounty helps a project to get success but not only this bounty can helps there are lots of things that can help a project to be successful. If a project get the success they wants thats because of the hardwork done by the team behind that projects. If the projects are very active on their social media updates then maybe a lot of investors will support the project.

Every project can't be popular without marketing, so bounty hunters are the free source to promote their project at the initial stage because bounty reward not paying upfront to bounty hunters by the projects, some investors invest to see the marketing posts by bounty hunters and some of them invest when IEO launched in any good exchange, so bounty hunters pay important role to start the project.

The signature campaign is the most important to me for the campaign. It will attract a lot of investors and make the project popular on this forum, but new projects are not as concerned with the signature campaign as before. They allocate the budget for it too low and even lower than the social campaigns

Actually, they know quite well what you are saying but there is one thing you take it wrong. Yes, majority people saw the signature, the retweet, or such are bounty hunter but that's fine as long as it caught the eye of investors. They understand that quite well and as just any kind of online advertising, you just need a number of reaches, clicks for your ads, not views.

Thats true.
do you know why many good projects fail on ico and ieo?
the answer is because in the past there were so many scam projects. 80% are scams and only 20% are advanced.
so that many investors are reluctant to allocate their money for crypto projects.
very difficult for devs who have a good project but without capital. those devs must have
innovation and capital.